Comments on: Fair Pricing and the Freelance Writer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/11/6993.html a freelance writing resource. Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/11/6993.html#comment-17828 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:51:07 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6993#comment-17828 In reply to Devon Ellington.

Oh, I know that scenario!

I get that people have budgets, but don’t expect a writer to ignore their own needs to serve you. And certainly don’t shame them or expect free work.

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/11/6993.html#comment-17827 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:32:31 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6993#comment-17827 Not only that, but the majority of clients or would-be clients demand working on-site, and then they try to add tasks that have nothing to do with writing.

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2018/11/6993.html#comment-17826 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:31:41 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=6993#comment-17826 My clients pay different rates, depending on the work required. Different types of writing require different time frames, research frames, writing skills. Most of my clients are not local, at this point. You mentioned your $70/hour gig being low. I don’t know of a single client in my region who’d pay $70 for anything other than an oil change on a car. Certainly not for an hour of writing. They bitch at anything over $12. Which is why most of my clients are over the bridge — except for those few local ones who meet my rate. Plenty of businesses NEED quality writing around here. But they won’t pay for it, and their materials are awful. I’m constantly deciding not to do business with this company or that company here because their materials are so poor.

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